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Supported Operating Systems
BCWipe for UNIX is developed to be cross-platform and should run on any POSIX-compliant UNIX flavor. It was successfully tested on following systems:
- AIX 5.x, 6.1
- Digital UNIX 4 – obsolete, use BCWipe v1.7
- FreeBSD 4.0-10.1
- HP-UX 11
- Linux 2.0-2.6, 3.x
- MacOS 10.5
- OpenBSD 4.4-5.6
- SGI Irix 6.5 (wiping block devices was not tested) – obsolete, use BCWipe v.1.7
- Solaris 9-10
Product Updates
28-April-2015 | v.1.9-13
- Fixed name handling for U.S. DoD wiping schemes with modified number of passes
22-April-2015 | v.1.9-12
- Fixed recursive subdirectory wiping problem in NAS mode
12-January-2015 | v.1.9-11
- Improved Wipe Free Space behavior
- Improved disk size detection in AIX
- Fixed random generation for unaligned access
16-March-2012 | v.1.9-9
- Preserve file times when wiping its symbolic links
- Added build support for Mac OS X 10.7
14-February-2011 | v.1.9-8
- User interface extension added for Mac OS X 10.6
- Resource fork wiping added for Mac OS X
- BCWipe now shows the device where free space is to be wiped
- User documentation updated
24-September-2010 | v.1.9-7
- Clean up temporary files after wiping free space on Mac OS X
08-June-2010 | v.1.9-6
- System random replaced with Bob Jenkins ISAAC random number generator. See here:http://burtleburtle.net/bob/
- Direct IO access mode is set as preferred for block devices
- Improved disk size detection on AIX systems
- Added multi-thread mode for wiping block devices
09-February-2010 | v.1.9-4
- Improved HP-UX compatibility
- Enhanced ‘wipe free space’ operation, so interrupted process will not leave temporary files
- Improved reliability of deleting temporary files
10-September-2009 | v.1.9-3
- Fixed hang-up on special files under Solaris OS
20-May-2009 | v.1.9-2
- AIX 5.3 compatibility bug fixed
28-April-2009 | v.1.9-1
- New wiping schemes added: German BCI/VSITR, U.S. DoE M 205.1-2, Bruce Schneier’s algorithm
- User defined wiping schemes support added
- Verbose logging support added
- Automatic configuration script (GNU Autoconf) added
- Minor bugs fixed
28-August-2008 | v.1.7-7
- Fixed critical bug for AIX 5.2
04-February-2008 | v.1.7-3
- Fixed temporary files creation on HP-UX 11
20-December-2007 | v.1.7-2
- Fixed error in getting linked device size for Solaris
11-December-2007 | v.1.7
- Last pass data verification added according to U.S. DoD 5220.22-M
17-February-2006 | v.1.6
- Options for test wiping passes added (overwriting by zeros and overwriting by writing sector numbers)
- Minor bugs fixed
24-March-2004 | v.1.4
- NAS mode wiping added
29-August-2003 | v.1.3
- Free space wiping added
18-October-2002 | v.1.2
- Program options changed; User documentation added
01-October-2002
- BCWipe for UNIX v1.1 is announced